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fix: evict unhealthy provider clients on failed health checks - #2056

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@dlanov dlanov commented Aug 3, 2026

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What this PR does / why we need it:

Provider gRPC clients are cached after their socket path is discovered. If a provider later moves its socket, the cached client can continue pointing to the old socket and remain unusable until the CSI driver is restarted.

This change:

  • snapshots cached provider clients before running health-check RPCs, avoiding holding the cache lock during network calls;
  • removes a provider client and connection from the cache when its health check fails;
  • closes the failed connection after removing it from the cache;
  • verifies the connection being evicted is still the one that failed, preventing an older health-check result from removing a newer connection;
  • allows the next Get() call to rescan the configured socket paths and create a new client;
  • preserves cached clients when the driver context is being canceled;
  • documents that this recovery behavior is available when provider health checks are enabled.

The default value of providerHealthCheck remains false.

Which issue(s) this PR fixes:

Fixes #1821

Testing:

  • go test ./pkg/secrets-store -run 'TestPluginClientBuilder_HealthCheck' -count=20
  • go test -race ./pkg/secrets-store -run 'TestPluginClientBuilder_HealthCheck' -count=5
  • make lint
  • make test
  • make lint-charts

Special notes for your reviewer:

The new eviction helper compares the cached connection against the connection captured by the failed health check. This avoids deleting a replacement client if another goroutine recreated the provider connection while the health-check RPC was running.

TODOs:

  • squashed commits
  • includes documentation
  • adds unit tests

Signed-off-by: Dennis Lanov <dennis.lanov@gmail.com>
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Cached client connections might be using an invalid socket if the provider moved its socket to another location after connection is cached

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